The Boston Marathon is back on Patriots Day for the first time since 2019. With two spring dates and the October edition canceled last year, the historic race course will be filled to capacity with 30,000 athletes. Among these athletes are a few high profile runners and celebrities who are passionate about the 26.2-mile hilly track. Here it is running.
Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play in an SEC soccer match, kicking off at the Vanderbilt Commodores in November 2020, just days after winning the SEC Women’s Soccer Championship. The goalkeeper is making her marathon debut in Boston.
“It’s been a really great training trip for this and I’m really excited to go to Boston, I’ve never been,” she said. Runner’s world.
As a child in El Salvador, Rivas was told that she would likely not be able to walk due to unknown health issues. Now, the 24-year-old is a US citizen and the youngest woman to run 100 marathons after completing the 2021 Los Angeles Marathon.
Chris Nickick became the first person with Down Syndrome to finish the Ironman triathlon on November 7, 2020, and earned two ESPYs in the summer of 2021 for his accomplishments. He finished the Boston Marathon in 6:01:22 last year.
Osborne played for the US national team, as well as six teams from the Women’s Professional Football League, with notable spells at the Boston Breakers and Chicago Red Stars.
Lilly has been a member of the US women’s national soccer team for 23 years, winning two Olympic gold medals and a two-time World Cup champion. She holds the women’s record for most matches played on the international stage with a score of 354. She will be running her second Boston Marathon on Patriots Day this year.
Ethan Zohn is no stranger to feats of endurance. The 48-year-old former footballer outplayed 31 other players to win Survivor: Africa He ran the Boston Marathon in 2013, before dropping out of the track at Mile 24 due to the bombing. A cancer survivor, Zohn is running for AKTIV Against Cancer, an organization that works to add physical activity to cancer treatment.
Val Rogochsky ran her first Boston Marathon in 1972—the first year women were invited to compete. At 75, she’s back in racing this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the inclusion of women. She is the only one among the original winners of the race this year.
Adrien Haslett lost her left leg from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings while watching. Inspired to start running, she finished the race by herself in 2016. After being hit by a driver in a car in 2019, she returned to the marathon in the athletes’ section. Shaleen Flanagan will be accompanying her for support this year.
Shalane Flanagan made history last year by running all six World Marathons (which included the virtual Tokyo Marathon) in just seven weeks. 2017 New York City Marathon champ will run the Boston support team for semi-athlete Adrianne Haslet.
The 36-year-old addiction specialist won the 16th season of the bachelorette, He proposes to Bachelorette Taishia Adams at the end. The duo ran the 2021 New York City Marathon together, but they have since separated. He will race the Boston Marathon – his ninth – solo.
Typically racing on four wheels, the NASCAR driver made his 26.2 debut at the 2019 Berlin Marathon with an impressive time of 3:07:40. He continued to run the 2019 New York City Marathon just one month later, with a time of 3:11:33. Will he sneak under three hours in Boston this year?
Chris Hitler
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Chris Hitler is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but prior to joining Runner’s World and Bicycling, he was a professional runner in Diadora, qualifying for multiple times in the U.S.
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